the act of beating, whipping, or thrashing: a series of unsolved bashings and robberies. a decisive defeat: We gave the visiting team a good bashing.

unprovoked physical assaults against members of a specified group: gay-bashing.verbal abuse, as of a group or a nation: feminist-bashing; China-bashing.

to strike with a crushing or smashing blow. Chiefly British, Canadian. to hurl harsh verbal abuse at. a crushing blow. Informal. a thoroughly enjoyable, lively party. have a bash (at), British. to attempt; make an attempt. on the bash, British. working as a prostitute. Contemporary Examples

Perhaps some expected me to begin my parliamentary career by bashing heads, literally. Vitali Klitschko Contemplates Bowing Out of the Ring and Entering Ukrainian Politics Gordon Marino March 25, 2013

Stop it with the gay jokes, stop with the bashing, stop with the fear. Another Gay Teen Suicide Claire Howorth October 1, 2010

Historical Examples

Honest to God, when you gas like that I feel like bashing in your brain, if you’ve got any! Slippy McGee, Sometimes Known as the Butterfly Man Marie Conway Oemler

In a second Harve had him tripped and thrown and was down on him bashing in his face for him. Back Home Irvin S. Cobb

Troth, and I’ve had a bashing once afore, and what I’ve had once I can do with agin. Six Years in the Prisons of England A Merchant – Anonymous

But as you say, what’s been done can’t be remedied by bashing in a man’s head. Parrot & Co. Harold MacGrath

Nick continued to ponder the strange men and the woman he was coming home to, but it was like bashing his head against a wall. The Sex Life of the Gods Michael Knerr

verb (transitive) to strike violently or crushingly (transitive; often foll by in, down, etc) to smash, break, etc, with a crashing blow: to bash a door down (intransitive) foll by into. to crash (into); collide (with): to bash into a lamppost to dent or be dented: this tin is bashed, this cover won’t bash easilynoun a heavy blow, as from a fist a dent; indentation a party (informal) have a bash, to make an attempt v.

a member of a people living in the Bashkir Autonomous Republic and adjacent areas. the Turkic language of the Bashkir, closely related to Tatar. Historical Examples On his way he had been joined by large bodies of the Kirghis and Bashkir nomads. Historic Tales, Vol. 8 (of 15) Charles Morris This Bashkir, however, was not […]

noun Marie, original name Marya Konstantinovna Bashkirtseva. 1858–84, Russian painter and diarist who wrote in French, noted esp for her Journal (1887) Historical Examples He understood her soul, though afterward cooled when he discovered the reality of the bashkirtseff legend. Egoists James Huneker But the bashkirtseff, with her voluptuous body and her attractive personality, is […]

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